The aim of the programme is to examine the social roles performed today by cultural production, circulation and transformation.
This research group investigates the ‘extra representational’ by focusing on new forms of political mobilization and affective management, which work on and through bodies.
Coordinator: Britta Timm Knudsen
This research group investigates the concept of creativity through the three main areas of 1) Creativity, theatre and education, 2) Creativity and screen production, and 3) Creative industry and culture production.
Coordinators: Ida Krøgholt, Anne Marit Waade
This interdisciplinary research group includes researchers investigating how humans invent, engage in, develop, change and negotiate cultural practices around death and dying - both before, during and after death.
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Coordinator: Dorthe Refslund Christensen
This research group focuses on the aesthetics and culture of fandom and celebrities from the perspectives of cross-media communication and media convergent culture.
Coordinator: Matthias Stephan
This research group brings together interdisciplinary projects that explore how we enact, study, archive, curate, write, and otherwise document the present in ways that influence our futures.
Coordinator: Annette Markham
This research group organizes various types of research activities that investigate how media and narrative matter for (disturbed) health.
Coordinators: Carsten Stage, Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard
This research group investigates entangled and dynamic relationships between natural/cultural heritage and tourism in various socio-political settings put in motion by new actors and challenges.
Coordinator: Britta Timm Knudsen
This research group is a forum for the investigation of user-generated production and user-driven participation across a variety of social fields and participatory platforms, e.g. urban spaces, aesthetic co-productions and online environments.
Coordinator: Camilla Møhring Reestorff
Practice theory addresses a key issue in studies of culture and cultural transformations, combining inspirations from sociology, philosophy, cultural theory, and science and technology studies (STS, ANT). This research group aims to develop this field as a foundation for exploring topics within the area of culture and aesthetics
Coordinator: Mads Krogh
Public debate and political action are influenced by aestheticization, commercialization and the obligations of a media-saturated public space. At the same time the development of digital and interactive media facilitates new kinds of democratic participation and activism.
Coordinator: Henrik Kaare Nielsen
This research group brings together junior scholars investigating how recalcitrant materiality, objects, and affects acting beyond human control relate to aesthetic and cultural phenomena.
Coordinators: Maja Bak Herrie, Ane Petrea Danielsen, Tobias Skiveren, Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen, Josefine Brink Siem
The core delivery of rethinkIMPACTS 2017 is a research-based evaluation of Aarhus as European Capital of Culture in 2017
Coordinator: Louise Ejgod Hansen
The aim of the research group Sexuality Studies is to contribute to an increased academic focus on sexuality and hereby to an increased understanding of the relation between sexuality and culture.
Coordinator: Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
The key issues addressed by this research group involve exploring, improving and presenting the relationship between sound and sound experience in a variety of contexts from a full, cross-disciplinary perspective. We carry out various interdisciplinary studies of the status, function and significance of sound and sound experience within the fields of media, language/literature, digital aesthetics, communication, art and culture, health, and urban spaces/architecture.
Coordinator: Ansa Lønstrup
This research group investigates why and how Danish TV drama currently is travelling. Our hypothesis is that specific transformations and value creations are happening at all stages in the production system of Danish TV drama production, from the idea to the production, distribution and reception processes, respectively.
Coordinator: Anne Marit Waade
